Solving the Frontline Crisis in Long-term Care: A Practical Guide to Finding and Keeping Quality Nursing Assistants [Paperback]

Karl Pillemer (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0965362906 | ISBN-13: 978-0965362900 | Publication Date: January 1996 | Edition: 1

This resource is full of practical tips for creating a stable and loyal frontline caregiving staff. Based on over a decade of original research, this Special Report examines the industry-wide problem of recruitment and retention in all its complexity, and shows you how to solve it in your facility! As we move into the 21st century, the long-term care industry will find itself dealing with a frontline staffing crisis that will make today's problems seem like "the good old days." There is no escape from this demographic reality. However, there are ways to prepare for it, and to begin to change your turnover situation right now. With Solving the Frontline Crisis in Long-term Care, you'll be able to: Understand the real factors that drive the cycle of turnover, Compute your present turnover rate and plan steps to decrease it, Accurately diagnose the specific kind of turnover your facility experiences, Review "best practice" models from around the country, Find the particular strategy that will be most successful in your facility, Build a stable, competent, and loyal frontline workforce for the future.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Without a doubt, this is the best book I have ever read on this subject!" - John Leandro, CEO, Southern Healthcare Board Member of North Carolina Association of LTC Facilities

"This book is a must-read for administrators, nurses, human service directors, and other supervisory personnel whose facilities suffer from high CNA turnover." - Carol Tschop, Chairman and President, AGE Institute

"Dr. Pillemer leads us from a survey of the problem to new understandings we can build upon in fashioning a loyal and stable frontline staff for the future." - Dr. R. Carter, Health Care Association of Michigan

About the Author

Karl Pillemer, Ph.D., an internationally renowned gerontologist, is the Director of the Applied Gerontology Research Institute at Cornell University. His decades of research into the work lives of nursing assistants led to the creation of Nursing Assistant Monthly, an ongoing continuing education program for nursing assistants in long-term care.

Product Details

• Paperback: 113 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 1 edition (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965362906
• ISBN-13: 978-0965362900
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,637,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)